Kajabago Ka-Rusoke
4 January 2009
opinion
Kampala — BARACK Obama is president-elect of US. He is a Black American. In the US, he is regarded a black American.
He has been a member of the US specific organ of the state apparatus called senate. This is part of the general law-making organ, the legislature of the US state apparatus. But to be a member of this organ, one must be financially sound.
The US has two main socio-economic classes, namely, the capitalist class and workers, class. The capitalist class has organisations, which are political.
The workers class has an organisation, which is barred by the legislature from being political. The capitalist class has two main political organisations, namely, the Republican and the Democratic Party. The purposes and aims of these two parties are fundamentally the same. They both believe in organising society on the basis of private and personal enterprises in the means and instruments of production both in the economic base and superstructure.
In every capitalist country, the workers are always the majority while the capitalists, the owners of the means and instruments of labour and production, are always the minority. The minority controls the entire wealth of the nation while the majority produces all that the country uses.
In Saudi Arabia, the ruling class is Arab. The ruled class is Arab. The ruling class is allied to the US capitalist class for oil and does not mind about the oppression of Arabs in Palestine vis-à-vis Jews and the state of Israel. Such is the class nature from the point of view of property relations and has nothing to do with race.
This presentation is an illustration that Barack Obama may not necessarily be ready to play a global socio-economic role geared towards the welfare of black races in the world. Neither may he consider the status of Arabs against Israel simply because he is considered somebody having some connections with Islam. Obama belongs to the capitalist class of the US that is all. He will behave and act according to the nature of the US capitalist class.
For example Guantanamo is a territory of Cuba. No US political party has ever considered surrendering that territory of Cuba confiscated by the US under whichever party in power.
All US political parties are in favour of the confiscation of that other and neighbourly country's territory. This is according to the class nature of capitalism faced with the Cuban socialist approach concerning how a human society should be organised and arranged which the US capitalist - anti-socialist class hates and is falling short of either wholly conquering or, sinking, the whole island.
The Democratic and Republican Parties are just branches of one and same capitalist movement of the US capitalist class. That is all. People should not be fooled.
The occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights as the US supports Israel in this act will keep Al-qeida alive. Obama is not opposed to this occupation. The question now is which organisation is terrorist? US capitalist class in favour of Israel as its extended territory or, Al-qa-eida which wants the liberation of occupied Arab lands?
Which is primary? Occupation or struggle against occupation? Did struggle start before occupation or did occupation start before struggle? How can one fail to differentiate between cause and effect?
The world capitalist system and arrangement of the globe will never be an answer to the global, material and spiritual demands on the part of humanity. The US with its economic and military superiority can only dominate the world but cannot guide it.
It is the duty of all the former colonies and all the working classes of the entire capitalist world to unite and put forward pro-people policies that can end up in legislation in various countries of the globe for the emancipation of humanity. It has taken a long time for a colonialist to understand how wrong colonialism was.
This was because of the graduality of the law of quantitative accumulation within the womb of a colonial socio-economic formation. This allows the multiplication and accumulation of colonial economic units, which social process exposes the colonial population to new types of tools and machines of production inevitably leading those people to the process of the formation of new ideas in terms of how to use the new machines and tools in colonial economic units and finally transforming them into new qualitative human beings. This does not stop here, but also leads them towards how the colonial apparatus is being used affecting their lives in the colonies.
They therefore, become subsequently political. Where they began noticing the colonial state apparatus being used against their desired welfare, they formed anti-colonial national liberation movements to overthrow colonialism and put in place independent sovereign states. But that takes time within the context of the dialectical categories of possibility and reality.
However, the graduality of quantitative accumulation will eventually result in a qualitative change. This is how the world capitalist system will gradually be phased out without necessarily using violence.
Humanity is not static. The capitalist will be transformed independently of his or her own wish. European settlers in Kenya, Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, South Africa, Namibia, have been placed in tight corners of biting psychology, completely bewildered as to how the world can change independently of the wishes of those who thought otherwise.
Nelson Mandela's name has just been rubbed from the US list of terrorists. To Nelson Mandela, the system of apartheid was wrong for people in South Africa. For European settlers it was correct. All pro-people cadres should work harder continuously not just to know more about the world, but also to know it thoroughly and then transform it.
The writer is a lecturer at the National Leadership Institute, Kyankwanzi
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